The 13th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1974 in Minsk, Belarus, at that time part of the Soviet Union.^[1]

Men's results

20 km individual

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Juhani Suutarinen	FIN	1	1:12:04.7
	Gheorghe Gârniță	ROU	1	1:13:28.9
	Tor Svendsberget	NOR	3	1:13:37.1

10 km sprint

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Juhani Suutarinen	FIN		37:42.43
	Günther Bartnick	GDR		38:30.73
	Torsten Wadman	SWE		38:44.03

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov Alexander Ushakov Nikolay Kruglov Juri Kolmakov	URS		2:02:48.75
	Finland Simo Halonen Carl-Henrik Flöjt Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola	FIN		2:04:08.89
	Norway Kjell Hovda Kåre Hovda Terje Hanssen Tor Svendsberget	NOR		2:05:15.35

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Finland	2	1	0	3
2	Soviet Union	1	0	0	1
3	East Germany	0	1	0	1
3	Romania	0	1	0	1
5	Norway	0	0	2	2
6	Sweden	0	0	1	1